ENDER’S GAME
By Orson Scott Card

New York A Tom Doherty Associates Book 1985 First edition. Publishers dark blue cloth over light blue paper covered boards. Inscribed on the half-title, "To Terry, A child-rearing guide. Orson Scott Card, 12, July '91". Spine leaning slightly otherwise book fine in a like jacket.

Ender's Game was the winner of the Hugo Award for best novel in 1986 and the Nebula Award for best novel in 1985, two notable awards in science fiction.

Ender's Game is one of the most well-known novels by Orson Scott Card. It is set in Earth's future where mankind has barely survived two invasions by the "buggers", an insectoid alien race, and the International Fleet is preparing for war. In order to find and train the eventual commander for the anticipated third invasion, the world's most talented children, including the extraordinary Ender Wiggin, are taken into Battle School at a very young age. The book takes place around the year 2135, and its sequels Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, A War of Gifts, and Ender in Exile: Ganges follow Ender to different worlds as he travels far into the future. The book originated as the novelette "Ender's Game" published in the August 1977 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact. Card later expanded the novel into the Ender's Game series, dealing with the long-term effects of the war.  

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The Yosemite
ISBN:R-THEYOSEMITE
Muir, John

Century, 1912. Dark green/black boards. Gold,grey,white images of Yosemite Valley on cover & spine. Gilded top edge. 32 full page plates from photographs; 3 folding maps. (8vo) 8¼x5½, original pictorial green cloth, top edge gilt. First Edition. Light soiling to cloth, small cloth repair to rear spine edge, light edge wear; offset to title page from frontispiece tissue guard; else very good. No DJ.

John Muir - farmer, inventor, sheepherder, naturalist, explorer, writer, and conservationist - was born on April 21, 1838 in Dunbar, Scotland. Until the age of eleven he attended the local schools of that small coastal town. In 1849, the Muir family emigrated to the United States, settling first at Fountain Lake and then moving to Hickory Hill Farm near Portage, Wisconsin.

It was California's Sierra Nevada and Yosemite that truly claimed him. In 1868, he walked across the San Joaquin Valley through waist-high wildflowers and into the high country for the first time. Later he would write: "Then it seemed to me the Sierra should be called not the Nevada, or Snowy Range, but the Range of Light...the most divinely beautiful of all the mountain chains I have ever seen." He herded sheep through that first summer and made his home in Yosemite.

By 1871 he had found living glaciers in he Sierra and had conceived his controversial theory of the glaciation of Yosemite Valley. He began to be known throughout the country. Famous men of the time - Joseph LeConte, Asa Gray and Ralph Waldo Emerson - made their way to the door of his pine cabin.

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